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The fastest deterministic algorithms for connected components take logarithmic time and perform superlinear work on a Parallel Random Access Machine (PRAM). These algorithms maintain a spanning forest by merging and compressing trees, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Paul Burkhardt

A number of recent papers -- e.g. Brandt et al. (STOC 2016), Chang et al. (FOCS 2016), Ghaffari & Su (SODA 2017), Brandt et al. (PODC 2017), and Chang & Pettie (FOCS 2017) -- have advanced our understanding of one of the most fundamental…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Janne H. Korhonen , Tuomo Lempiäinen , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

In the vertex connectivity survivable network design problem we are given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and connectivity requirement r(u,v) for each pair of vertices u,v. We are also given a cost function on the set of edges. Our goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Pushkar Tripathi

Non-deterministic constraint logic (NCL) is a simple model of computation based on orientations of a constraint graph with edge weights and vertex demands. NCL captures \PSPACE\xspace and has been a useful tool for proving algorithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Tatsuhiko Hatanaka , Felix Hommelsheim , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Akira Suzuki

In this paper, we study a survivable network design problem on directed graphs, 2-Connected Directed Steiner Tree (2-DST): given an $n$-vertex weighted directed graph, a root $r$, and a set of $h$ terminals $S$, find a min-cost subgraph $H$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Fabrizio Grandoni , Bundit Laekhanukit

We give fast, simple, and implementable catalytic logspace algorithms for two fundamental graph problems. First, a randomized catalytic algorithm for $s\to t$ connectivity running in $\widetilde{O}(nm)$ time, and a deterministic catalytic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 James Cook , Edward Pyne

We study Clustered Planarity with Linear Saturators, which is the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex planar graph whose vertices are partitioned into independent sets (called clusters) with paths - one for each cluster - that connect all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Giordano Da Lozzo , Robert Ganian , Siddharth Gupta , Bojan Mohar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Meirav Zehavi

The landscape of the distributed time complexity is nowadays well-understood for subpolynomial complexities. When we look at deterministic algorithms in the LOCAL model and locally checkable problems (LCLs) in bounded-degree graphs, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

This paper considers fully dynamic graph algorithms with both faster worst case update time and sublinear space. The fully dynamic graph connectivity problem is the following: given a graph on a fixed set of n nodes, process an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 David Gibb , Bruce Kapron , Valerie King , Nolan Thorn

Standpoint linear temporal logic SLTL is a recent formalism able to model possibly conflicting commitments made by distinct agents, taking into account aspects of temporal reasoning. In this paper, we analyse the computational properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stéphane Demri , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga

Given a set of obstacles and two points, is there a path between the two points that does not cross more than $k$ different obstacles? This is a fundamental problem that has undergone a tremendous amount of work. It is known to be NP-hard,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Eduard Eiben , Iyad Kanj

Consider a graph problem that is locally checkable but not locally solvable: given a solution we can check that it is feasible by verifying all constant-radius neighborhoods, but to find a solution each node needs to explore the input graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Will Rosenbaum , Jukka Suomela

We consider a routing problem which plays an important role in several applications, primarily in communication network planning and VLSI layout design. The original underlying graph algorithmic task is called Disjoint Paths problem. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rupei Xu , András Faragó

Motivated by hybrid graph representations, we introduce and study the following beyond-planarity problem, which we call $h$-Clique2Path Planarity: Given a graph $G$, whose vertices are partitioned into subsets of size at most $h$, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Patrizio Angelini , Peter Eades , Seok-Hee Hong , Karsten Klein , Stephen Kobourov , Giuseppe Liotta , Alfredo Navarra , Alessandra Tappini

Let $G = (V,E,w)$ be a weighted, digraph subject to a sequence of adversarial edge deletions. In the decremental single-source reachability problem (SSR), we are given a fixed source $s$ and the goal is to maintain a data structure that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We show that the perfect matching problem in general graphs is in Quasi-NC. That is, we give a deterministic parallel algorithm which runs in $O(\log^3 n)$ time on $n^{O(\log^2 n)}$ processors. The result is obtained by a derandomization of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ola Svensson , Jakub Tarnawski

In this work, we give a unifying view of locality in four settings: distributed algorithms, sequential greedy algorithms, dynamic algorithms, and online algorithms. We introduce a new model of computing, called the online-LOCAL model: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Amirreza Akbari , Navid Eslami , Henrik Lievonen , Darya Melnyk , Joona Särkijärvi , Jukka Suomela

For Boolean satisfiability problems, the structure of the solution space is characterized by the solution graph, where the vertices are the solutions, and two solutions are connected iff they differ in exactly one variable. Motivated by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Konrad W. Schwerdtfeger

We study the following general disjoint paths problem: given a supply graph $G$, a set $T\subseteq V(G)$ of terminals, a demand graph $H$ on the vertices $T$, and an integer $k$, the task is to find a set of $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Dániel Marx , Paul Wollan

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski